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I have a Tommy Trojan welcome mat by ndalum88

Unfortunately, it seems to be packed away still in an unidentified box from our move 2 years ago. It used to be accompanied throughout football season with a sign on the front door encouraging guests to thoroughly clean their shoes on the mat provided prior to entering the house. I suppose it's possible that in packing for the move, my wife decided it was too tattered and smeared with too many foreign substances (it got to the point where when people would come to watch games, they would find all sorts of substances to deliberately leave on the mat) to include in the move and she just can't bring herself to tell me.